“This is exactly why I left New York. If you are a productive member of society, you are robbed to support parasites.”
It is draining the northeast of employers and employable people; so much is peed away in entitlements that little is left to maintain the infrastructure used by the people and companies who pay the taxes.
The New York metro area is going to be Detroit in the not so distant future. Perhaps, parts of Manhattan will remain attractive, but the rest of it is done for. I made the decision to move when it the point where over half my earnings were going to pay for parasites. There are loads of others making the same decision. You are absolutely right that the infrastructure will crumble. That’s what happened in Detroit and will happen in Queens, the Bronx, Hudson County, Essex County, etc.